Regé-Jean Page Stars In Netflix Erotic Thriller Series ‘Hancock Park’

EXCLUSIVE: The Duke is back. Bridgerton alum Regé-Jean Page is returning to Netflix as the star and executive producer of erotic thriller series Hancock Park. The project, which I hear landed at Netflix for development in a competitive situation with three major streamers bidding, comes from writer Matthew Barry (Industry), Drew Comins‘ Creative Engine (Yellowjackets) and Fifth Season. According to sources, it has been put on an accelerated development track with a script-to-series commitment.

Hancock Park is named after the historic and affluent Los Angeles neighborhood which counts Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos and Bridgerton executive producer Shonda Rhimes among longtime current and former residents.

The series follows a dangerously charismatic outsider (Page), who invades the lives of a seemingly picture-perfect Los Angeles family when he rents their backyard guest house. But as he dives further into their world, the façade of this elite community begins to crumble, and he exposes the desire, deceit, and obsession that lurks around every corner of one of L.A.’s most-coveted neighborhoods.

In addition to writing, Barry is executive producing alongside Page and his producing partner Emily Brown through their A Mighty Stranger banner and Comins for Creative Engine. Fifth Season, where Comins has a first-look deal, is the studio.

Page has the rare distinction of having both a series (Bridgerton Season 1) and a movie (The Gray Man) on Netflix’s Top 10 most popular English-language lists. His starring role as the Duke of Hastings on the first season of Netflix’s Regency romance drama catapulted Page into global stardom. He has been focused on movies since, starring in The Gray Man opposite Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Steven Soderbergh’s spy thriller Black Bag and Universal’s upcoming romantic comedy You, Me & Tuscany, opposite Halle Bailey, which comes out in April.

Through A Mighty Stranger, Page and Brown are developing a Count Of Monte Cristo movie at Department M for Page to star and Funny You Should Ask, a TV series adaptation of Elissa Sussman’s best-selling novel, which is set up at Apple from Tomorrow Studios, also as a starring vehicle for Page. He is repped by UTA, Brillstein Entertainment Partners, attorney Gregory Slewett and Shelter PR.

Welsh writer Barry served as a writer-producer on Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. He recently wrote Men Up, a Welsh TV movie for BBC One, which earned him a writing BAFTA Cymru Award, and the BBC miniseries The Guest. He is repped by WME, Hansen Jacobson Teller and The Agency.

At Netflix, Comins, two-time Emmy nominee for Yellowjackets, also has in the works the UK-based Dangerous Liaisons, from Mood creator and star Nicôle Lecky, which recently opened a writers room, a series adaptation of Adam Silvera’s novel They Both Die at the End, with Bridgerton creator Chris Van Dusen writing and Bad Bunny producing, and Lena Dunham’s Covers. Additionally, The Holdout, starring Amy Adams, is in development at HBO with Industry creators Mickey Down and Konrad Kay, and The Stowaway, starring Oscar Isaac, at Apple TV. Comins is repped by CAA and attorney Patti Felker.